1. Design. The product causing your injury may have been defective if it was designed improperly. Obviously the optimal scenario would be for the manufacturer to make a safe product in the first place. Calling this goal “design” may be a little misleading, because a manufacturer really has to do two things at the outset.First, the manufacturer has to design a safe product. A product that is not designed safely has a design defect. However, even the best design will be of no use if the manufacturer doesn’t actually use the design. Accordingly, the second thing the manufacturer must do is manufacture the product correctly, according to the design specifications. If a manufacturer does not follow the design plan, the product will have a manufacturing defect.
2. Guard. The product causing your injury may have been defective if the manufacturer should have put a guard on the product but didn’t. Clearly manufacturers should make products safe when possible. If it is impossible to make a safe product, the manufacturer should guard against the danger.
3. Warn. The product causing your injury may have been defective if the manufacturer should have warned you about the product’s dangers but didn’t. A warning is considered a last resort, used only if the manufacturer cannot make a safe product and cannot guard against its dangers. If used, the warning has to fairly explain the danger to the user.
If you or a loved one has suffered injury from a defective product, we urge you to contact our office as soon as possible at 303.815.1587
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with an experienced product liability attorney in Colorado. We handle all cases on a contingency fee basis, which means that you owe us nothing until we recover money on your behalf.
